One part of writing a PDF converter is making sure that the fonts embedded within the PDF are accessible to the target platform. For PDF to HTML, this means converting a range of fonts in different formats into a format accepted by browsers. This is a significant challenge due to the wide range of font…
Back in the 1980s, Adobe saw that the existing methods of displaying text digitally – bitmapped fonts – were not up to the task at hand. Due to this, Outline font technologies (in the form of PostScript, notably Type 1) were born. While TrueType joined their class later in the decade, Type 1 fonts drove the…
I have been doing a lot of work with fonts recently for our PDF to HTML5 convertor. This has involved taking apart many Truetype and OpenType fonts and even building new fonts which I then need to analyse. I usually use the excellent Fontforge for this. The main problem I have found with this tool…
